Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo and Secretary of State Anthony Blinken will lead the gathering, scheduled three weeks after the election. By Reuters The Biden administration plans to convene a global safety summit on artificial intelligence, it said on Wednesday, as Congress continues to struggle with regulating the technology. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo and Secretary of State Anthony Blinken will host on Nov. 20-21 the first meeting of the International Network of AI Safety Institutes in San Francisco to “advance global cooperation toward the safe, secure, and trustworthy development of artificial intelligence.” The network members include Australia, Canada, the European Union, France, Japan, Kenya, South Korea,

Benjamin Netanyahu is raising the risks of an all-out Middle East war The editorial board Please use the sharing tools found via the share button at the top or side of articles. Copying articles to share with others is a breach of FT.comT&Cs and Copyright Policy. Email licensing@ft.com to buy additional rights. Subscribers may share up to 10 or 20 articles per month using the gift article service. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appears to have made provocation his new strategy. As thousands of Hizbollah members went about their daily business on Tuesday, the pagers they were carrying exploded. Panic

By Nikki McCann Ramirez On Tuesday and Wednesday, pagers and small electronic devices belonging to members of Hezbollah exploded across Lebanon. The operation, allegedly carried out by the Israeli intelligence service Mossad, killed at least 10 people — including one child — and injured thousands, according to reports from the Lebanese health ministry.  The devices detonated in two waves at grocery stores, markets, homes, and even at a funeral. U.S. officials indicate the attack was a joint operation between Israeli intelligence forces and military. The attack is the latest bloody incident in a series of escalations between Hezbollah and Israel amid the backdrop of Israel’s ongoing siege against Gaza. Throughout the

The head of the Secret Service told Donald Trump in a private meeting that significant new security arrangements will be needed if he wants to keep playing golf, The New York Times reported on Tuesday. Trump asked Ronald Rowe, the Secret Service’s acting director, in a meeting on Monday whether it was safe for him to continue playing, the newspaper said. Rowe said the Secret Service views the golf course at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland as easier to secure because it is a military course. That meeting occurred a day after the Secret Service thwarted a second apparent assassination

By John Bowden ASenate hearing on hate-related incidents was capped off on Tuesday by a male Republican lawmaker yelling at a witness and falsely accusing her of supporting terrorism. The strange scene played out in front of the cameras at a meeting of the Senate Judiciary Committee, which met to discuss rising rates of incidents motivated by antisemitic and Islamophobic hatreds around the United States, which have risen sharply since the conflict in Gaza began last October. enator John Kennedy, the committee’s top-ranking Republican, was questioning Maya Berry of the Arab American Institute when he began shouting at her that she “support” Hamas and Hezbollah. Berry unequivocally

SRINAGAR, India (AP) — The three-phased election for choosing a local government in Indian-controlled Kashmir opened early Wednesday in the first such vote since Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government stripped the disputed region of its special status five years ago. Authorities deployed thousands of additional police and paramilitary soldiers in the region’s seven southern districts where over 2.3 million residents are eligible to cast their votes and chose 24 lawmakers out of 219 candidates in the first phase of the polling. Wearing riot gears and carrying assault rifles, troops set up checkpoints and patrolled the constituencies in the districts as locals lined up to

Danny Cohen A report by Ofcom last week revealed that online sites and apps are now more popular than television in the UK when it comes to accessing the latest news. After decades of dominance, our televisions have been superseded by the internet when we want to find out what is going on in the world. This is promising news for British newspapers, which are successfully making the transition from print editions to digital services.  There is no reason why high-quality, well-managed newspapers cannot be profitable in the age of the iPhone, and many publications are now proving this to be the

Kapil Komireddi Moldova is not so much a product of history as its by-product, an epiphenomenon among nations that owes its inception to the deeds and doings of others. Its survival, however, is a measure of the character of its own peoples.  Moldova has no tradition of statehood. Its nationhood is not premised on a distinctive identity. Its language, a source of dispute and a subject of contention, is essentially Romanian. Its landmass is fractured. A sliver of territory beyond the Dniester broke away in 1992 to form the unrecognised Pridnestrovian Moldovan Republic. There is a Turkic autonomous region near the foot

Thierry Breton resigns after accusing Commission president of ‘questionable governance’ and horse trading with French president By: James Crisp France’s EU commissioner has accused Ursula von der Leyen and Emmanuel Macron of forcing him out of Brussels in a backroom deal that culminated in his resignation on Monday. Thierry Breton attacked the EU Commission president’s “questionable governance” in a letter he posted on social media on Monday. He claimed Mrs von der Leyen offered France a more influential role in her new executive in exchange for getting rid of him “for personal reasons”. It comes amid horse trading over jobs in the

US president said: ‘One thing I want to make clear is: the Service needs more help. And I think Congress should respond to their need’ Joe Biden has said the US Secret Service “needs more help” in the wake of a second assassination attempt on Donald Trump. The US president called on Congress, which is responsible for approving funds for the agency to provide protection for current and former presidents, to “respond to their need”. Speaking to reporters outside the White House, Mr Biden said: “One thing I want to make clear is: the Service needs more help. And I think Congress